JRebel 3.x Changelog

3.6.2 (19th April 2011)

• Added Hibernave Validator plugin
• Added support for Jetty 8
• Added stripes-guicer support for Stripes plugin
• Added componenets.xml support for JBoss Seam 2.x (enable with -Drebel.seam.componentReloading=true)
• Improved Equinox class loader integration
• Fixed JSP scriplets support on Glassfish and JBoss 3
• Fixed Struts/Tiles multi-module application bug
• Fixed packaged taglib scanning for Glassfish 3
• Improvements in Eclipse debugger integration
• Improvements in IntelliJIDEA debugger integration

Merged from 4.0-M1:

• Adding new Stateless/Stateful session beans in JBoss 4.2.x & 5.1
• Adding new Stateless/Stateful session beans in Glassfish 2.0, 3.0.1
• Added initial support for Spring 3.1
• Added support for Clojure’s gen-class
• Added support for GAE 1.4.2
• Improved URL handler mapping reloading for Spring MVC
• Fixed getResourceAsStream(“/”) issue on Tomcat
• Fixed Mojarra 2/2.1 tag file resolving issue
• Fixed facelet resolving issue
• Fixes for Tiles integration
• Fixes for Struts integration
• Fixed EAR verification on WebLogic
• Fixed security policy generation on Glassfish 3.0.1/2.0
• Fixed WAS 7.0 tld lookup issue
• Fixed servlet context registration on WAS 5.1
• Fixed verification errors on WAS
• Fixed issue with DuplicateMemberException on WAS
• Fixed Stripes plugin excessive cache cleaning
• Improvements for Lift plugin
• Improved classloader integration JBoss 3

3.6.1 (7th February 2011)

• Added graceful handling of destroyed classloaders for Lift
• Added integration with FilteringClassLoader on Weblogic
• Improved EJB injection on JBoss 6
• More fixes to Tiles integration
• More fixes to Mojarra 2.1 integration

3.6 (31st January 2011)

• Eclipse plugin: Added JRebel tab to the following launch configuration types: m2eclipse, Spring tc Server, Eclipse Virgo, RAP, OSGi
• Eclipse plugin: Improved debugger stepping behavior
• Eclipse plugin: Fixed error on opening server options editor for Glassfish 3
• Eclipse plugin: Improved WebSphere 6.1 support with RAD
• Eclipse plugin: ${rebel.workspace.path} property is set to Eclipse workspace location when launching programs from Eclipse
• IntelliJ plugin (v1.2.0): Improved debugger stepping behavior
• Added Lift integration
• Added Logback integration
• Added JUEL integration
• Added integration with expression language used in early JSF-RI 1.1 releases
• Added support for Sun Application Server 8.1 & 8.2
• Added support for EJB 3.1 on Glassfish 3
• Added support for wiring new @EJB fields on Glassfish
• Added Stripes @Validate annotation support
• Added support for loading tag files from JARs mapped in rebel.xml on Tomact, Jetty, JBoss and Glassfish
• Added Spring web and portlet MVC URL handler mapping
• Fixes for the the current Weld snapshot version
• Fixed issue with WebServiceTestingServlet on Glassfish
• Fixed iBatis reloading when used with Spring template
• Fixed VFS handing on JBoss 6
• Fixed NPE in Tiles integration
• Fixed serialization integration on Oracle 1.6.0_23 JVM
• Fixed serialization integration on JRockit 1.4 and 1.5 JVMs
• Fixed an issue with Hibernate OpenSessionInViewFilter
• Improved Mojarra integration
• Reflection API integration improvements
• Enabled passing jrebel.properties location via system property
• Concurrency fixes

3.5 (16th November 2010)

• Exception stack trace now doesn’t include JRebel artifacts
• Support for serializing added fields now enabled by default
• Better handling for modular class loaders (OSGi, NetBeans, Felix)
• Improved reflection performance
• rebel.xml and extracted content is now reused after restart
• Added plugin for Spring Webflow
• Added plugin for Wicket
• Added plugin for Tiles 1.x, 2.x
• Added plugin for Seam Wicket integration
• Added plugin for JBoss AOP
• Added plugin for Jackson
• Added plugin for Lift framework (Scala)
• Added plugin for RESTEasy
• Fixed Spring configuration re-loading within servlet containers
• Maven plug-in renamed from javarebel-maven-plugin to jrebel-maven-plugin
• Maven plug-in improvements for rebel.xml generation
• Maven plug-in synchronized to Maven Central
• Fixed Groovy 1.7 meta class handling
• Fixed NullPointerException in Log4j plugin
• Fixed Log4j configuration re-loading if used via Commons Logging / SLF4J
• Fixed ClassCastException in Mojarra plugin when multiple Mojarra implementations in class path
• Fixed integration with Stripes 1.5.4
• Fixed NullPointerException in GWT
• Fixed NullPointerException in Struts2 DefaultStaticContentLoader while reloading Struts configuration
• Fixed IllegalStateException while reloading Mojarra configuration
• Fixed exceptions in Spring plugin after application redeploy
• Fixed issue with running JBoss 5 with security manager enabled
• Fixed iBATIS sql map reloading when iBATIS is configured by Spring
• Fixed issue with Spring configuration loaded from byte array
• Fixed method arguments being not available in debugger on method entry
• Fixed DuplicateMemberException on WebSphere 7
• Fixed IllegalAccessException when reflectively invoking methods of protected nested class
• Fixed reloading interceptors changes for Seam components
• Fixed response already commited excpetion from JRebel static resource servlet
• Fixed JRebel static resource servlet not redirecting on Jetty when directory is accessed without ending slash
• Fixed BeanInfo flushing on IBM 1.6 JVMs
• Fixed issue with CgLib proxy class regeneration
• Fixed too eager caching of web resource paths
• Eclipse JRebel plug-in: occasional pop-up notifications about saved redeploy time
• IntelliJ JRebel plug-in: occasional pop-up notifications about saved redeploy time
• IntelliJ JRebel plug-in: fixed NPE for rebel.xml generation action
• Fixed license server proxy settings issue

3.1.2 (12th August 2010)

• Added support for JBoss 6
• Added support for Freemarker
• Separated EclipseLink plugin from TopLink plugin
• Improved OSGI integration
• Fix hibernate initialization failing with Liferay 4.2.2
• Fix reflection incorrectly throwing IllegalAccessException
• Fix log4j plugin failing with log4j over sl4j
• Fixed an issue with packaged tag files on JBoss
• Fixed an issue with serialization
• Fixed an issue with JDK proxy classes
• Fixed an issue with Spring resource resolution
• Fixed several license server issues

3.1.1 (14th July 2010)

• Added support for serializing added fields (-Drebel.serialization=true)
• Added support for Tomcat 7
• Added support for Geronimo 2.1.5
• Added support for reloading ListResourceBundles on IBM 6.x JVMs
• Added support for JBoss serialization
• Added supprot for TomcatInstrumentableClassLoader
• Added support for Mojarra 2.0.3
• Added support for reloading Tag files in JARs with Jasper
• Added support for Jetty 7.1
• Added support for EclipseLink 2.0.2
• Added support for Spring 3.0.3
• Added statistics SDK
• Improved support for Groovy closures
• Improved AspectJ support
• Improved support for Google App Engine
• Improved support for Google Web Toolkit
• Fixed issue with missing persistence unit on Websphere
• Fixed issue with serializing hibernate session factory
• Fixed issue with reloading JPA entities on Glassfish 2
• Fixed issue with reloading JPA entities on Glassfish 3
• Fixed integration with old CgLib 2.x versions
• Fixed issue with reflection and package private classes
• Fixed handling of Seam lifecycle methods
• Fixed issue with Guice and constructor changes
• Fixed a NoClassDefFoundError with reflection
• Fixed a NoSuchMethodException with TopLink plugin
• Fixed an issue with log4j plugin

3.1 (1st June 2010)

• Added GlassFish EJB integration
• Added scriptlet support for GlassFish 3
• Added TopLink and EclipseLink JPA plugin that reloads EntityManagerFactory when configuration changes
• Added TopLink Spring (Non-JPA) plugin that reloads SessionFactory when configuration changes
• Added iBatis plugin for reloading sql maps
• Added support for reloading ListResourceBundles
• Added support for Hibernate JPA configuration
• Added support for changing @RequestParam annotations without explictit value in Spring 3
• Added initial support for Geronimo
• Improved Google App Engine rebel.xml support
• Config Wizard: Fixed an issue with saving settings
• Fixed an issue with EJB integration on Weblogic 10.3.3
• Fixed a NoClassDefFoundError on GlassFish
• Fixed a ClassCastException with CgLib proxies
• Fixed a FileNotFoundException with “jrebel.info.tmp”
• Fixed a StackOverflowError with Spring plugin
• Fixed a NullPointerExceptions with rebel.xml class loading
• Fixed an issue with trace log without default log level
• Fixed an issue with web links and JSPs on Weblogic 8
• Fixed an issue with defualt servlet on Tomcat
• Fixed an issue with static resources not being cached by browser
• Fixed integration with AspectJ 1.6.9
• Fixed integration with Javassis 3.12.0.GA
• Fixed integration with Wicket 1.4.9
• Fixed issues with CgLib
• Fixed issues with spring plugin causing failures on application startup
• Fixed livelock in spring plugin
• Fixed issues with struts 1 plugin causing failures on application startup
• Fixed issues with scriptlets referencing classes from non-webapp classloader on weblogic 10
• Fixed synchronization issues within JRebel

3.0.1 (1st May 2010)

• Added advanced handling of JDK Proxies
• Added scriptlet support for Websphere
• Added scriptlet support for Resin.
• Added support for Resin 4.0.6
• Added support for AspectJ 1.6.8
• Added EJB 3 support for JBoss versions before 4.2.3
• Added support for Spring DM server 2.
• Fix integration with AspectJ load time weaving agent
• Fix classloader integration for NetBeans platform applications
• Fixed an issue with class initialization
• Fixed an issue with EJBs on Weblogic 11g
• Fixed integration with Mojarra 1.2.14
• Fixed IllegalAccessException not thrown for public methods in non-public classes.
• Fixed static fields not reinitializing of no other changes were made.

3.0 (15th April 2010)

• Fixed an issue with GuiceComponentReloader and closed class loaders
• Fixed an issue with rebel.xml being ignored by AppClassLoader

3.0 RC2 (13th April)

• Improved perfomance of resource finding on Windows
• Changing super class now causes a SuperClassChangedException to be thrown.
• JRebel will now call the static method __rebelReload() after each reload, if it exists.
• Enabled plugins no longer display any console output, disabled plugins are listed with the JRebel banner.
• Fixed an issue causing IllegalAccessException with setAccessible(false) calls.
• Fixed synchronization of class reload listeners.
• Fixed an issue with LinkageError instead of NoClassDefFoundError on Windows
• Fixed an issue with closed class loaders on OC4J 10.x and Glassfish 3.x
• Fixed an issue with SpringBeanReloader or CachedIntrospectionResultsCBP and closed class loaders
• Fixed an issue with LinkageError on Weblogic 9 JspClassLoader
• Fixed an issue with IllegalArgumentException on Spring
• Fixed an issue with NullPointerException on class loading
• Fixed an issue with logging to an illegal file

3.0 RC1 (29th March)

• Added OpenJPA plugin; reloads the EntityManagerFactory on configuration changes (disabled by default)
• Added support for load time weaving with spring-agent
• Fixed potential Classloader deadlock on Tomcat 6.0.26
• Fixed NoSuchMethodError for early Spring 2 versions

3.0 M3 (17th March)

• Added rebel.xml editor for simplifying configuration
• Added support for adding new EJB interface methods on Websphere 6.1 with EJB 3.0 Feature Pack and Websphere 7.0
• Added support for adding new methods to CgLib and Javassist proxy classes
• Added Hibernate plugin that reloads the SessionFactory when configuration changes.
• Added plugin for Mojarra that reloads JSF annotations and xml configuration
• Added plugin for Weld that reloads Weld annotations
• Added support for reloading property resource bundles on IBM jvms
• Improved expression language support
• Improved startup behavior to prevent deadlocks and early classloading problems.
• Fixed Jar manifest being null if rebel.xml is used.
• Fixed private inner classes incorrectly treated as accessible.
• Fixed an issue with Javassist incorrectly handling return type overloading.
• Fixed an issue with JAR locking on Windows
• Fixed an issue with class initialization
• Fixed IllegalStateException if static resources were included from JSP
• Fixed Weblogic integration to support JPA
• Fixed Websphere integration for Websphere 7.0.0.7

3.0 M2 (15th February)

• Added resource caching to improve startup time
• Classpath plugins are no longer supported for performance reasons
• Tuned the JBoss 4.x and 5.x classloader integration to improve startup time
• Added support for adding new EJB interface methods on Weblogic 8.x, 9.x, 10.x.
• Added support for adding new EJB interface methods and wiring new @EJB fields on JBoss 4.x, 5.x.
• Added support for Google Guice 2.x.
• Added plugin for reloading modified facelet tag libraries.
• Added plugin for JBoss Seam that reloads Seam annotations.
• Added plugin for Groovy that makes Groovy MetaClass work.
• Added Wicket 1.4 integration
• Added rebel.xml support for Google App Engine
• Better reflection support for JRockit 1.4.
• Jetty 6.x early versions now supported
• JRebel spring plugin will now autowire dependencies to beans having JDK proxies.
• AspectJ plugin will now reweave aspects to reloaded classes.
• Added support for adding new handler methods to spring MultiActionControllers.
• Added support for reloading messages used in struts <bean:message> tag.
• Fixed an issue with protected instance field shadowing
• Fixed an issue with class reloading and reflection
• Fixed an issue with changing method return types on interfaces
• Fixed netbeans classloader integration to find resources from rebel.xml classpath.
• Fixed Websphere 7 integration.
• Fixed Glassfish integration to support JPA load time weaving.
• Fixed default serialVersionUID for RMI-IIOP calls.
• Fixed Method#getGenericParameterTypes missing first parameter after class reload.
• Fixed Jrebel Struts 1 plugin failing in projects using tiles.
• Fixed an issue with custom plugins button in Agent Settings/Configuration Wizard
• Several server configuration fixes in Reference Manual/Configuration Wizard

3.0 M1 (15th October)

• Support for adding static fields and changing enums.
• Full JSP support (including accessing new methods, classes and fields from scriptlets)
• 25%-30% improvement on instrumented class memory use.
• JRebel no longer keeps references to classloaders after application redeployment.